Exam question 2 · Andersen tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 141: Ole explai…

Which character is described as the conductor of the omnibus that carries all persons into eternity?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: omnibus · What happens: describe, carry · To what, where: character, persons, eternity

This is exam question 2 of lesson 930 «Andersen tales, Ole the Tower-Keeper, part 141: Ole explains the six glasses, the tree in the dust-cart, and Death's omnibus» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 character	det
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 described	aux:pass
4	described	describe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 conductor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 conductor	det
7	conductor	conductor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 described	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 omnibus	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 omnibus	det
10	omnibus	omnibus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 conductor	nmod
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 carries	nsubj
12	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 omnibus	acl:relcl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 persons	det
14	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 carries	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	16 eternity	case
16	eternity	eternity	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carries	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 described	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	describe	present · passive		which character				as the conductor of the omnibus	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as conductor=Attribute
2	carry	present	the omnibus	all persons			into eternity		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

Satan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Satan	Satan	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Death

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

God

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Fate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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